Not a Society!

This web site doesn't belong to the Geelong Historical Society, the Geelong Family History Group, the Geelong Heritage Centre, or any other local or family history group or organisation in the district. It belongs to one individual who for a couple of decades has been compiling, collecting, encouraging volunteers, and creating these 400+ web pages for people researching in our region.

Time Capsules and the Addy

How many Time Capsules contain a copy of the Geelong Advertiser?

I have no idea but we're going to try to find out. If you have any details or references to a Time Capsule that contains a copy of the Geelong Advertiser, you can send them in by completing the Time Capsule form.

Where to start?

Thank You

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Pozible crowd-funding project to get this website and database back up and running. We've achieved the first part of the project but there are many bits in the background that aren't working as they should. That will be ongoing work to initially sort out any problem areas then to upgrade the entire system up to a new version to make it more robust.

Ocean Grove: Land Titles

Updated 26th June 2016

Do you want to know who owned your land in Old Ocean Grove? This database is an ongoing project however it contains at least the original Land Title owners for every allotment in Old Ocean Grove. The details are on the Geelong and District Blog where major updates will be announced as they occur. Many old photographs have also been added of some existing older buildings and some long since demolished.

Bellarine Historical Society

The Bellarine Historical Society is a non-profit making organisation staffed by volunteers with a keen interest in preserving the history of the Bellarine Peninsula. To achieve our objectives, the Society relies on the support of our volunteers, members, grants and sponsors ... we are indebted to them all.

Sewerage and Building records

These records are a wonderful resource for local and family history researchers and can be found in a multitude of repositories.

If you find details of sewerage records, either on-line or in archives, please
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so they can be added to this site to assist other researchers.